Dear Editor:
Cyrus Mehta asserts in his November 26 Immigration
Daily article,
that the INS special registration program to
fingerprint nonimmigrants from countries with
significant Muslim populations is "troubling because
it inherently profiles an individual based on his or
her nationality regardless of individualized guilt or
suspicion."
This is the same old tired liberal argument against
profiling. Profiling is indeed needed in this
situation as the terrorists of today are
overwhelmingly, if not 100%, of radical Islamic
background. Have Christian, Buddhist, or Latino
nonimmigrant terrorists attacked or want to attack the
US? I believe that most Americans of reasonable mind
see that this is simply common sense to check on men
from those countries that pose the greatest terrorist
threat to the US and who are only here on
nonimmigrant status. The program does not cover
immigrants or men with asylum applications filed
before November 23, 2002. If this were really
targeting Muslims for no reason, why is North Korea,
an atheistic and communist country where one probably
cannot even practice Islam, on the list?
Larry Liem Doan, Esq.
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